Books for Tween and Young Teens

Please be aware that books are selected for a range of readers from 8-14 years old. As you know, a book that is topical and appropriate for an 14 year old may very well not be for a 10 year old. There are other important factors that come into play when deciding which books are appropriate, such as the reader's maturity level, reading ability, and family mores.

Websites for Tweens and Young Teens

The list provides a sample of sites in art, literature, the sciences, mathematics, computer science, and history. We acknowledge that this list is absent of the typical favorite music, video and social networking sites of tweens and teens, such as Facebook, Hulu, Pandora, Spotify, Youtube, iTunes, Instagram and Picmonkey, but we hope that this sampling of Great Web Sites will provide inspiration to the librarians that strive to provide new perspectives to today’s tweens and teens.

Websites

Reports/Articles

From realities to values: a strategy framework for Digital Natives: so how do you take these Digital Native realities and build a set of strategies that support your organization's digital initiatives, especially when technology is quickly and constantly shifting?. Helene Blowers. Computers in Libraries 30.4 (May 2010): p6(5).

Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-year-olds. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. January 2010. Available as a PDF.

Multimedia

The Teen Brain: A Work in Progress: Digital Distractions. (Video file)

NBC Nightly News (Video). ShadowTV. April 12, 2011. pNA.

Today's Family: "TMI" On the World Wide Web. (Video file)

Today (Video). ShadowTV. Jan 5, 2011. pNA.

Video Contest Winners

The following videos were submitted from librarians in the field to highlight effective programming and innovations for working with tweens and young teens. These videos were shown at the 2012 Joint President's Program.